January 2011
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Image by peterjr1961 via Flickr ante diem iii idus januarias Carmentalia begins (day 1) — a two-day festival (with a three day break between the days) in honour of the deity Carmenta, who was possibly a goddess of both childbirth and prophecy. 49 B.C. — Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon (by another reckoning) ?? B.C.…
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Adrian Murdoch continues his series: Emperors of Rome: Tiberius
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Image by mo pie via Flickr ante diem iv idus januarias 49 B.C. — Caesar crosses the Rubicon (according to some sources) 69 A.D. — emperor-for-a-little-while-and-not-much-longer Galba adopts Lucius Calpurnius Piso
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Some gleanings from today’s newsletter … as always, some repeats, some alternate versions, some things I hope I’ll get to blog: ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ Finds from various periods at Medinet al-Far (Syria): http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/201101058547/Related-news-from-Syria/ar\ chaeologists-head-statue-mosque-walls-islamic-coins-discovered-in-syria.html All sorts of translation/transcription problems with this Byzantine (?) mosaic (?) find from Kfamboda, Hama (Syria): http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/201101068555/Related-news-from-Syria/ar\…
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Seen on the Classicists list (please direct any queries to the folks mentioned in the item and not to rogueclassicism): Dear all, A new e-journal called "Electra" is about to be launched by the Centre for the Study of Myth and Religion in Greek and Roman Antiquity, founded by the Department of Philology of the…
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